Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Lemon Study

Lemon Study, 2006, oil on canvas, 6 x 6 inches

I was thinking tonight, 'how in the hell am I going to paint something without my paints?' My materials are in storage, including my big collection of Williamsburg Oil paints. All I have with me is a paint box with odd colors that I rarely use, and tonight I had to make magic happen with this restricted color palette. I didn't know what to do or paint. I was ready to give up until I decided to just give it a try and paint this lemon. To my luck, there was still some paint left over on my palette from the other night, giving me access to my usual colors. I had to use them wisely because I was not going to have enough for this small painting. I made it work some how. I'm happy with this painting, it might not be a master piece but I love it anyway.

About Me

"Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision-it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so."
- Charles W. Hawthorne -
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"One of the functions of art is to remind us of common humanity. The artist, like the priest, can sometimes remind us that we are bound by an obligation to one another stronger and more lasting than the bonds of politics or economics."
- John Manchip White, Diego Velazquez: Painter and Courtier -
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"To defend an artist as original says little about his work except that it is in some way different from what preceded it. As such, originality itself is rarely a strong defense, for it is born more of admiration for audacity and perseverance than necessarily of understanding." - James H. Rubin, Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets -